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<title>inet: fix possible memory corruption with UDP_CORK and UFO</title>
<updated>2013-11-04T12:35:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hannes Frederic Sowa</name>
<email>hannes@stressinduktion.org</email>
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<published>2013-10-21T22:07:47+00:00</published>
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[ This is a simplified -stable version of a set of upstream commits. ]

This is a replacement patch only for stable which does fix the problems
handled by the following two commits in -net:

"ip_output: do skb ufo init for peeked non ufo skb as well" (e93b7d748be887cd7639b113ba7d7ef792a7efb9)
"ip6_output: do skb ufo init for peeked non ufo skb as well" (c547dbf55d5f8cf615ccc0e7265e98db27d3fb8b)

Three frames are written on a corked udp socket for which the output
netdevice has UFO enabled.  If the first and third frame are smaller than
the mtu and the second one is bigger, we enqueue the second frame with
skb_append_datato_frags without initializing the gso fields. This leads
to the third frame appended regulary and thus constructing an invalid skb.

This fixes the problem by always using skb_append_datato_frags as soon
as the first frag got enqueued to the skb without marking the packet
as SKB_GSO_UDP.

The problem with only two frames for ipv6 was fixed by "ipv6: udp
packets following an UFO enqueued packet need also be handled by UFO"
(2811ebac2521ceac84f2bdae402455baa6a7fb47).

Cc: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@resnulli.us&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ This is a simplified -stable version of a set of upstream commits. ]

This is a replacement patch only for stable which does fix the problems
handled by the following two commits in -net:

"ip_output: do skb ufo init for peeked non ufo skb as well" (e93b7d748be887cd7639b113ba7d7ef792a7efb9)
"ip6_output: do skb ufo init for peeked non ufo skb as well" (c547dbf55d5f8cf615ccc0e7265e98db27d3fb8b)

Three frames are written on a corked udp socket for which the output
netdevice has UFO enabled.  If the first and third frame are smaller than
the mtu and the second one is bigger, we enqueue the second frame with
skb_append_datato_frags without initializing the gso fields. This leads
to the third frame appended regulary and thus constructing an invalid skb.

This fixes the problem by always using skb_append_datato_frags as soon
as the first frag got enqueued to the skb without marking the packet
as SKB_GSO_UDP.

The problem with only two frames for ipv6 was fixed by "ipv6: udp
packets following an UFO enqueued packet need also be handled by UFO"
(2811ebac2521ceac84f2bdae402455baa6a7fb47).

Cc: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@resnulli.us&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ip: generate unique IP identificator if local fragmentation is allowed</title>
<updated>2013-10-14T01:14:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ansis Atteka</name>
<email>aatteka@nicira.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-18T22:29:53+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 703133de331a7a7df47f31fb9de51dc6f68a9de8 ]

If local fragmentation is allowed, then ip_select_ident() and
ip_select_ident_more() need to generate unique IDs to ensure
correct defragmentation on the peer.

For example, if IPsec (tunnel mode) has to encrypt large skbs
that have local_df bit set, then all IP fragments that belonged
to different ESP datagrams would have used the same identificator.
If one of these IP fragments would get lost or reordered, then
peer could possibly stitch together wrong IP fragments that did
not belong to the same datagram. This would lead to a packet loss
or data corruption.

Signed-off-by: Ansis Atteka &lt;aatteka@nicira.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 703133de331a7a7df47f31fb9de51dc6f68a9de8 ]

If local fragmentation is allowed, then ip_select_ident() and
ip_select_ident_more() need to generate unique IDs to ensure
correct defragmentation on the peer.

For example, if IPsec (tunnel mode) has to encrypt large skbs
that have local_df bit set, then all IP fragments that belonged
to different ESP datagrams would have used the same identificator.
If one of these IP fragments would get lost or reordered, then
peer could possibly stitch together wrong IP fragments that did
not belong to the same datagram. This would lead to a packet loss
or data corruption.

Signed-off-by: Ansis Atteka &lt;aatteka@nicira.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ip: use ip_hdr() in __ip_make_skb() to retrieve IP header</title>
<updated>2013-10-14T01:14:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ansis Atteka</name>
<email>aatteka@nicira.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-18T22:29:52+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 749154aa56b57652a282cbde57a57abc278d1205 ]

skb-&gt;data already points to IP header, but for the sake of
consistency we can also use ip_hdr() to retrieve it.

Signed-off-by: Ansis Atteka &lt;aatteka@nicira.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 749154aa56b57652a282cbde57a57abc278d1205 ]

skb-&gt;data already points to IP header, but for the sake of
consistency we can also use ip_hdr() to retrieve it.

Signed-off-by: Ansis Atteka &lt;aatteka@nicira.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xfrm: introduce helper for safe determination of mtu</title>
<updated>2013-08-14T11:09:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hannes Frederic Sowa</name>
<email>hannes@stressinduktion.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-13T02:35:58+00:00</published>
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skb-&gt;sk socket can be of AF_INET or AF_INET6 address family. Thus we
always have to make sure we a referring to the correct interpretation
of skb-&gt;sk.

We only depend on header defines to query the mtu, so we don't introduce
a new dependency to ipv6 by this change.

Cc: Steffen Klassert &lt;steffen.klassert@secunet.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert &lt;steffen.klassert@secunet.com&gt;
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skb-&gt;sk socket can be of AF_INET or AF_INET6 address family. Thus we
always have to make sure we a referring to the correct interpretation
of skb-&gt;sk.

We only depend on header defines to query the mtu, so we don't introduce
a new dependency to ipv6 by this change.

Cc: Steffen Klassert &lt;steffen.klassert@secunet.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert &lt;steffen.klassert@secunet.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipv4: ip_output: remove inline marking of EXPORT_SYMBOL functions</title>
<updated>2013-05-11T23:12:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Denis Efremov</name>
<email>yefremov.denis@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-08T23:19:42+00:00</published>
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EXPORT_SYMBOL and inline directives are contradictory to each other.
The patch fixes this inconsistency.

Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).

Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov &lt;yefremov.denis@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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EXPORT_SYMBOL and inline directives are contradictory to each other.
The patch fixes this inconsistency.

Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).

Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov &lt;yefremov.denis@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: use IS_ENABLE to replace if defined in TRACE target</title>
<updated>2013-04-01T23:03:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gao feng</name>
<email>gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-21T19:48:42+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Gao feng &lt;gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Gao feng &lt;gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: Fix possible wrong checksum generation.</title>
<updated>2013-02-13T18:30:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pravin B Shelar</name>
<email>pshelar@nicira.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-11T09:27:41+00:00</published>
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Patch cef401de7be8c4e (net: fix possible wrong checksum
generation) fixed wrong checksum calculation but it broke TSO by
defining new GSO type but not a netdev feature for that type.
net_gso_ok() would not allow hardware checksum/segmentation
offload of such packets without the feature.

Following patch fixes TSO and wrong checksum. This patch uses
same logic that Eric Dumazet used. Patch introduces new flag
SKBTX_SHARED_FRAG if at least one frag can be modified by
the user. but SKBTX_SHARED_FRAG flag is kept in skb shared
info tx_flags rather than gso_type.

tx_flags is better compared to gso_type since we can have skb with
shared frag without gso packet. It does not link SHARED_FRAG to
GSO, So there is no need to define netdev feature for this.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar &lt;pshelar@nicira.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Patch cef401de7be8c4e (net: fix possible wrong checksum
generation) fixed wrong checksum calculation but it broke TSO by
defining new GSO type but not a netdev feature for that type.
net_gso_ok() would not allow hardware checksum/segmentation
offload of such packets without the feature.

Following patch fixes TSO and wrong checksum. This patch uses
same logic that Eric Dumazet used. Patch introduces new flag
SKBTX_SHARED_FRAG if at least one frag can be modified by
the user. but SKBTX_SHARED_FRAG flag is kept in skb shared
info tx_flags rather than gso_type.

tx_flags is better compared to gso_type since we can have skb with
shared frag without gso packet. It does not link SHARED_FRAG to
GSO, So there is no need to define netdev feature for this.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar &lt;pshelar@nicira.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: Handle encapsulated offloads before fragmentation or handing to lower dev</title>
<updated>2012-12-09T05:20:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Duyck</name>
<email>alexander.h.duyck@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-07T14:14:15+00:00</published>
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This change allows the VXLAN to enable Tx checksum offloading even on
devices that do not support encapsulated checksum offloads. The
advantage to this is that it allows for the lower device to change due
to routing table changes without impacting features on the VXLAN itself.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.h.duyck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This change allows the VXLAN to enable Tx checksum offloading even on
devices that do not support encapsulated checksum offloads. The
advantage to this is that it allows for the lower device to change due
to routing table changes without impacting features on the VXLAN itself.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.h.duyck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipv4: introduce rt_uses_gateway</title>
<updated>2012-10-08T21:42:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Julian Anastasov</name>
<email>ja@ssi.bg</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-08T11:41:18+00:00</published>
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Add new flag to remember when route is via gateway.
We will use it to allow rt_gateway to contain address of
directly connected host for the cases when DST_NOCACHE is
used or when the NH exception caches per-destination route
without DST_NOCACHE flag, i.e. when routes are not used for
other destinations. By this way we force the neighbour
resolving to work with the routed destination but we
can use different address in the packet, feature needed
for IPVS-DR where original packet for virtual IP is routed
via route to real IP.

Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Add new flag to remember when route is via gateway.
We will use it to allow rt_gateway to contain address of
directly connected host for the cases when DST_NOCACHE is
used or when the NH exception caches per-destination route
without DST_NOCACHE flag, i.e. when routes are not used for
other destinations. By this way we force the neighbour
resolving to work with the routed destination but we
can use different address in the packet, feature needed
for IPVS-DR where original packet for virtual IP is routed
via route to real IP.

Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: use a per task frag allocator</title>
<updated>2012-09-24T20:31:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-23T23:04:42+00:00</published>
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We currently use a per socket order-0 page cache for tcp_sendmsg()
operations.

This page is used to build fragments for skbs.

Its done to increase probability of coalescing small write() into
single segments in skbs still in write queue (not yet sent)

But it wastes a lot of memory for applications handling many mostly
idle sockets, since each socket holds one page in sk-&gt;sk_sndmsg_page

Its also quite inefficient to build TSO 64KB packets, because we need
about 16 pages per skb on arches where PAGE_SIZE = 4096, so we hit
page allocator more than wanted.

This patch adds a per task frag allocator and uses bigger pages,
if available. An automatic fallback is done in case of memory pressure.

(up to 32768 bytes per frag, thats order-3 pages on x86)

This increases TCP stream performance by 20% on loopback device,
but also benefits on other network devices, since 8x less frags are
mapped on transmit and unmapped on tx completion. Alexander Duyck
mentioned a probable performance win on systems with IOMMU enabled.

Its possible some SG enabled hardware cant cope with bigger fragments,
but their ndo_start_xmit() should already handle this, splitting a
fragment in sub fragments, since some arches have PAGE_SIZE=65536

Successfully tested on various ethernet devices.
(ixgbe, igb, bnx2x, tg3, mellanox mlx4)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ben Hutchings &lt;bhutchings@solarflare.com&gt;
Cc: Vijay Subramanian &lt;subramanian.vijay@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.h.duyck@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Vijay Subramanian &lt;subramanian.vijay@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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We currently use a per socket order-0 page cache for tcp_sendmsg()
operations.

This page is used to build fragments for skbs.

Its done to increase probability of coalescing small write() into
single segments in skbs still in write queue (not yet sent)

But it wastes a lot of memory for applications handling many mostly
idle sockets, since each socket holds one page in sk-&gt;sk_sndmsg_page

Its also quite inefficient to build TSO 64KB packets, because we need
about 16 pages per skb on arches where PAGE_SIZE = 4096, so we hit
page allocator more than wanted.

This patch adds a per task frag allocator and uses bigger pages,
if available. An automatic fallback is done in case of memory pressure.

(up to 32768 bytes per frag, thats order-3 pages on x86)

This increases TCP stream performance by 20% on loopback device,
but also benefits on other network devices, since 8x less frags are
mapped on transmit and unmapped on tx completion. Alexander Duyck
mentioned a probable performance win on systems with IOMMU enabled.

Its possible some SG enabled hardware cant cope with bigger fragments,
but their ndo_start_xmit() should already handle this, splitting a
fragment in sub fragments, since some arches have PAGE_SIZE=65536

Successfully tested on various ethernet devices.
(ixgbe, igb, bnx2x, tg3, mellanox mlx4)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ben Hutchings &lt;bhutchings@solarflare.com&gt;
Cc: Vijay Subramanian &lt;subramanian.vijay@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.h.duyck@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Vijay Subramanian &lt;subramanian.vijay@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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